This saturday morning I visited an electronic/computershop and they had just gotten a MBP the day before, I even got the same discount as I would have got at apple.com as a student, but now I can just go down to the store, should I have a problem with it. I also got a wireless mighty mouse.

It will take some time getting used to, and I better put it aside for a week until my last exam is over, but it's just so beautiful.
The whole Mac OSX is going to take me all summer to get used to I think, it sure is something else, for instance, I have no idea why there are little "drives" icons after installing programs. I have deleted some of them, but then I couldn't find the program anymore. Do I have to have these on my desktop, as I like this clean and tidy??

I will probably post a lot of silly questions on here during the summer

Regarding frontrow, is there anyway to use it without the remote, and does anybody else have experience with it being incredibly slow when going back from watching a .avi file?? Last time I used it, it just froze, I could turn off the computer by pressing the power button and enter, but that was all

Hi Toubro,

How much RAM do you have? The performance really notches up if it has two GB.

Once you have downloaded a program, you must move it to the applications folder. From the finder, just type COMMAND (Apple symbol) + N and you will open a window showing your various sub-folders. Place the app's inside the applications folder. From there you can also drag them to the dock. The app remains in the folder, but you create an alias of the app, and it will open when you click it in the dock.

The disc images created by downloads can just be dragged to your trash bin once you have placed the app and documentation in the respective folders.

Frontrow shouldn't be slow - but again, that depends on your RAM.

Have fun!
 

As for my MacBook Pro - Apple in Bristol are just looking at it, and we're looking for a replacement! I bought mine when they first came out, which was a big mistake.

Never buy the first version of anything from Apple. Took me dozens of buys to figure that one out. I'm pleased the US will be ironing out the problems in the iPhone. It gets to Europe 6 months later, much improved.

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As for my MacBook Pro - Apple in Bristol are just looking at it, and we're looking for a replacement! I bought mine when they first came out, which was a big mistake.

Never buy the first version of anything from Apple. Took me dozens of buys to figure that one out. I'm pleased the US will be ironing out the problems in the iPhone. It gets to Europe 6 months later, much improved.

Alex, that just sounds sick, hope you get a new one and that my MBP won't act like that.

It is very slow when pressing "menu" on the remote to go a step back in frontrow, but besides that it's great, (although I am writing from my old IBM now, as Safari and this forum obviously isn't the best of friends )
Is there a way to maximize a window as in XP?? When I press the green button in the upper corner, it doesn't fill the screen.
BTW. I accidently dragged and dropped the @ on a spring icon that was next to my recycle bin, to the desktop so it disappearred, (not used to the touchpad), what is/was that??

It is a 2,2ghz, with 2Gb RAM, so it's a treat compared to my IBM which is a 800mhz with 128mb ram

 Thanks for the help so far guys.

Toubro:

Alex, that just sounds sick, hope you get a new one and that my MBP won't act like that.

Don't worry, it won't. Mine was a first generation one, which are as always, a bit useless. I think it was just even worse than usual with the 1st gen MacBook Pros.

Toubro:

It is very slow when pressing "menu" on the remote to go a step back in frontrow, but besides that it's great, (although I am writing from my old IBM now, as Safari and this forum obviously isn't the best of friends )

Firefox, Opera and Camino seem to work fine, although I still use Safari because I like the way it looks. Sadly the Safari 3 beta still doesn't work with the forum, although it seems to work fine on all other sites with a rich text editor.

Toubro:

Is there a way to maximize a window as in XP?? When I press the green button in the upper corner, it doesn't fill the screen.

The only way to maximize a window in OS X is to drag it to the full screen size. Some apps will fill the entire screen when you press the green button, but not all, I'll explain why.

What the green button does, is it basically resizes a window so it's the minimum size it can be whilst still displaying all the information it can. So for example, if a website needs a window of a certain size, pressing green in Safari will cause it to become that size.

Quite a few people moan about this, but it's only once you really get into what OS X is like as an OS that you understand why it's better than the maximize feature in windoze. Basically, OS X behaves and acts like a desk. Everything is drag + drop based, and windows are not meant to fill the entire screen, much like a document would never fill your entire desk unless it absolutely needed to, this is why some programs like Garage Band fill the screen - they need absolutely as much of it as possible.

Toubro:

BTW. I accidently dragged and dropped the @ on a spring icon that was next to my recycle bin, to the desktop so it disappearred, (not used to the touchpad), what is/was that??

It is a 2,2ghz, with 2Gb RAM, so it's a treat compared to my IBM which is a 800mhz with 128mb ram

 Thanks for the help so far guys.

And enjoy the MBP It's a great machine. You'll find loads of cool little things all over OS X, like the ability to hold down SHIFT to slow down most animations (such as minimizing a window).

Thanks Alex. You really shouldn't have, now I'll haunt you with questions all summer

I thought the maximizing of windows had a reason, it actually sounds quite clever.

I just love using iTunes, my old IBM and my Dell desktop takes forever to open the program, but the MBP just fires it right up.